Anil Dash
that guy from the internet • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and xmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • see https://anildash.com
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Here are good people and organizations to follow if you are in, or care about, New York City.
@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social
New York Daily News City Hall reporter + @nydnunion.bsky.social member. Have a tip? DMs are open. You can also reach me at csommerfeldt@nydailynews.com
@julesrotich.bsky.social
Tech in service of humanity. Fintech, GovTech, AI, Entrepreneurship, Transformational Leadership. Build, fix, help others.
@donohoe.dev
Engineering & Product stuff for Journalism. I build media things. Not your life coach. donohoe.dev
@vicmsong.bsky.social
Senior reviewer at The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun. Signal: @vicmsong.14 Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
@justinwolfers.bsky.social
Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings and PIIE ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full.
@bluebotsdonequick.com
Information and updates about Blue Bots, Done Quick! - a free tool that allows you to easily build your own Bluesky bot using Tracery code. Make your own at https://bluebotsdonequick.com! (Created by @olafmoriarty.no)
@garywhitta.com
Writer. Rogue One, The Book of Eli, Star Wars Rebels, Batman, The Walking Dead, Gundog etc #COYS
@battymamzelle.bsky.social
writer, critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨ I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.
@protecttruth.bsky.social
"The problem of our time: billionaire oligarchs have learned to exploit today’s media to manipulate public opinion, and co-opt democracies from the inside." - me
@lexikentmonning.bsky.social
Debut novel THE BURDEN OF JOY out now from Rejection Letters press https://asterismbooks.com/product/the-burden-of-joy
@rcfp.org
The Reporters Committee provides free legal help to journalists and protects their First Amendment rights. (RCFP for short.) Find us at rcfp.org. ☎️ Legal Hotline: 800-336-4243 | hotline@rcfp.org ✉️ Sign up for our newsletters: rcfp.org/subscribe
@3r1ng.bsky.social
Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
@heatherrasley.bsky.social
Mom, friend, possible android | Trust & Safety at Glif.app | Taller than she seems on the internet. | https://www.heatherrasley.com/
@lanebecker.bsky.social
Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @ Wikimedia/Wikipedia. Previously @ IFTF, 18F, Code for America.
@ayahbdeir.bsky.social
@backlon.com
Currently working at Google. Formerly Verge, Android Central, PreCentral, iMore, etc. Posts about bikes, tech, and whether or not today is Friday.
@lea.verou.me
I make things that help people make things. Product Lead at Font Awesome. CSS WG Invited Expert, W3G TAG alumni. HCI PhD @ MIT. @leaverou@front-end.social on Mastodon, @leaverou elsewhere
@knowtheory.net
Distributed social networking nerd. Co-organizer for #ATmosphereConf & ATproto Community Fund; Product person. Scifi nerd. Grew DocumentCloud. Made Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
@originalist.bsky.social
"Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps."
@thomasfuchs.at
👨💼fine time tracking software at nokotime.com 📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us) 🔭 #astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space 🕹️ #retrocomputing 🐈 #cats Ally. He/him.
@tyler.britten.us
Computers for work, beer, snowboards, and airplanes for fun. Penn State alumnus.
@iraweinschel.com
Photographer/musician, he/him, new to Providence, RI (formerly Austin TX) iraweinschel.com dull.bandcamp.com
@jacobsilverman.com
Please preorder my next book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY Signal: jacobsilverman.99 jacobsilverman@gmail.com www.jacobsilverman.com
@brianvan.bsky.social
this social media feed doesn't make any sense, either // digital refugee, extremely busy person, ask me about my long bike rides
@jwhitbrook.bsky.social
Lead Editor at @io9dotcom.bsky.social and @gizmodo.com. Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
@devindra.bsky.social
Immigrant. Tech/movie 🇬🇾 guy. Engadget Editor. Filmcast co-host. ATL Film Critics Circle member. He/Him. devindra@devindra.org @devindra@mastodon.social
@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
NPR Cybersecurity Correspondent (currently) reporting on the transformation of the federal government including by DOGE. Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
@meyerweb.com
Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
@mattjay.com
Friendly neighborhood cybersecurity guy | expect infosec news, appsec, cloud, dfir. | Long Island elder emo in ATX. vulnu.com <- sign up for my weekly cybersecurity newsletter
@elliottkalan.bsky.social
@cityplanning.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Arizona State University I study transport, land use, local governance. Cityplanning.01 on signal. Four freedoms. Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFu5Z2YAAAAJ&hl=en
@willbunch.bsky.social
National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@iquanyin3.bsky.social
Our revels now are ended. These, our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air… —ws otter. seagull. butterfly.
@buttplug.engineer
Teledildonticist, Arctic Fox, Cube 🍑🔌 @buttplug.io 🌐 @good.as.hell.domains 💼 nonpolynomial.com 💵 patreon.com/qdot | ko-fi.com/qdot76367 🐘 buttplug.engineer/@qdot 👾 twitch.tv/qdotfm 💻 github.com/qdot 🎶 last.fm/user/qdot he/him art by @gavbat.bsky.social
@luvvie.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author (4x) 📚 Noted speaker. Book coach (Founder of The Book Academy). Latest book: LITTLE DEFENDS HER NAME (out 5/6/25). Preorder: http://LittleTroublemakerBook.com
@mmccue.bsky.social
Co-founder, CEO Flipboard Host of DotSocial Podcast Check out my custom feeds in the feeds tab Made with surf.social beta Also Flipboard @mike.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy Mastodon @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy Pixelfed @mmccue.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
@hasanminhaj.com
OFF WITH HIS HEAD now streaming on NETFLIX 👇🏾 www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81776083 HASAN MINHAJ DOESN'T KNOW now streaming on YOUTUBE/PODS 👇🏾 https://www.youtube.com/@HasanMinhaj?sub_confirmation=1 https://lemonada.lnk.to/HasanMinhajDoesntKnowhs
@triblondon.trib.tv
Drinking best practices; Ex Fastly, W3C TAG, Financial Times. I will sort your pens in order of length while you're not looking. 🌈🍸🇪🇺🚅🍜
@mike.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy
CEO, Co-founder Flipboard. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. Also posting at @mike@flipboard.social Follow to see […] [bridged from https://flipboard.com/@mike on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@susanrinkunas.com
Journalist: abortion, reproductive justice. Jezebel, Slate, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Nation, Democracy Docket. @wgaeast.bsky.social Council. From PA, now in BK http://linktr.ee/susanrinkunas 📯 susanrinkunaswrites @gmail Signal: susanrinkunas.73
@kenjennings.bsky.social
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of 100 PLACES TO SEE AFTER YOU DIE (bit.ly/3kLgJKO) and a bunch of other stuff. OMNIBUS co-founder (patreon.com/omnibusproject).